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List of Famous Brats
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Gen. John N. Abrams is the son of Gen. Creighton Abrams, after whom the
Abrams tank was named. John attended school in Frankfurt, Germany, while
his father was stationed in Frankfurt from 1959 until 1962.

DR. HUNTER
"PATCH" ADAMS

Dr. Patch Adams, subject of a recent movie staring Robin Williams is
an Army Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus. According to his biography
he was educated in DoDDS schools in Japan and Germany. He was in Germany
at Kaiserslauten High School, KHS Class of ’62, when his father died
of a heart attack.

CHRISTINA
AGUILERASINGER

Christina Aguilera is an Army Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.
She is the latest Mouseketeer to hit it big, following in the footsteps
of fellow former Mickey Mouse Club stars Britney Spears and two members
of boy band N'Sync. Only 18, Aguilera is already topping the charts with
her single, "Genie In A Bottle."

Aguilera was raised outside Pittsburgh, the daughter of a military
father and a violinist/pianist mother. She began her career early, appearing
on "Star Search" at age eight singing the national anthem for the
Pittsburgh Steelers and Penguins at age 10.

From a recent interview with MTV News: MTV: "Why don't
you begin by telling a little about yourself."

Christina Aguilera: "I was born in Staten Island, New York. But
I call my hometown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, because that's basically where
I ended up from age eight on. But right after Staten Island... I've lived
everywhere from Texas, to Japan for three years, to New Jersey. I'm this
traveling girl. My father was in the Army, so I guess I'm an Army brat."

JESSICA
ALBA
TELEVISION STAR

Jessica Alba the star of the television series "Dark Angel" is a military brat. Born in Pomona, California in 1981, Alba grew up on Air Force Bases in Texas, Mississippi, and California. As reported in "People" magazine.

Leslie M. Alexander is an Overseas School Alumnus. He is presently
the US ambassador to Ecuador and previously was the US ambassador to Mauritius.

Ambassador Alexander is a 1966 graduate of Orleans American HS in France.

MICHAEL
J. ALEXANDER
AUTHOR

Michael Alexander is the author of "The Underground Guide to Computer
Security," published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. 1996. He is also
the author of book "The Digital Doberman," published by Ventana Press in
1998.

Michael Alexander is a 1968 graduate Mannheim American High School in
Germany.

RAY ALLEN
NBA PROFEESIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER
(1975- )

Ray Allen is an Air Force Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.
His father was a career Air Force NCO.

Allen was born in California and has lived in Germany, Oklahoma, England,
Georgia and South Carolina. He attended high school in Dalzell, South
Carolina.

Ray Allen was the first player in UConn men's basketball history to
be named All-American status as only a sophomore Player of the year. Ray
Allen helped lead the US to the gold medal at the World University Games
in 1995.

Allen was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves and traded to the Milwaukee
Bucks in 1996. Recently, he signed a six-year contract extension with Milwaukee.

Lt. Col. Michael Anderson -USAF/NASA Astronaut. Michael
Anderson was an Air Force brat. He was lost along with the six other NASA
astronauts when the space shuttle Columbia broke up upon re-entry to earth on
Saturday, February 1, 2003. In a previously published interview Lt. Col.
Anderson related, "My dad was in the Air Force. And you know, being an Air
Force brat and living on Air Force bases, I was always around airplanes. And,
that was something else that really captured my imagination, just seeing
airplanes, you know taking off and landing every day, and flying over the house,
and making all of this noise just was a fascinating thing to me as a kid. So, my
interest in aviation and my interest in science were, I guess, two of the things
I really latched on to, and two things that I just couldn't shake as I grew
older."

NAME: Michael P. Anderson (Lieutenant Colonel, USAF) NASA
Astronaut PERSONAL DATA: Born December 25, 1959, in Plattsburgh, New York.
Considers Spokane, Washington, to be his hometown. Married. He enjoys
photography, chess, computers, and tennis. EDUCATION: Graduated from Cheney High School in Cheney, Washington, in
1977. Bachelor of science degree in physics/astronomy from University of
Washington, 1981. Master of science degree in physics from Creighton University,
1990. SPECIAL HONORS: Distinguished graduate USAF Communication Electronics
Officers course. Recipient of the Armed Forces Communication Electronics
Associations Academic Excellence Award 1983. Received the USAF Undergraduate
Pilot Training Academic Achievement Award for Class 87-08 Vance AFB. Awarded the
Defense Superior Service Medal, the USAF Meritorious Service Medal, and the USAF
Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster. EXPERIENCE: Anderson graduated form the University of Washington in 1981
and was commissioned a second lieutenant. After completing a year of technical
training at Keesler AFB Mississippi he was assigned to Randolph AFB Texas. At
Randolph he served as Chief of Communication Maintenance for the 2015
Communication Squadron and later as Director of Information System Maintenance
for the 1920 Information System Group. In 1986 he was selected to attend
Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB, Oklahoma. Upon graduation he was
assigned to the 2nd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, Offutt AFB Nebraska
as an EC 135 pilot, flying the Strategic Air Commands airborne command post
code-named "Looking Glass". From January 1991 to September 1992 he
served as an aircraft commander and instructor pilot in the 920th Air Refueling
Squadron, Wurtsmith AFB Michigan. From September 1992 to February 1995 he was
assigned as an instructor pilot and tactics officer in the 380 Air Refueling
Wing, Plattsburgh AFB New York. Anderson has logged over 3000 hours in various
models of the KC-135 and the T-38A aircraft. NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in December 1994, Anderson reported to
the Johnson Space Center in March 1995. He completed a year of training and
evaluation, and is qualified for flight crew assignment as a mission specialist.
Anderson was initially assigned technical duties in the Flight Support Branch of
the Astronaut Office. Most recently, he flew on the crew of STS-89. In
completing his first space flight Anderson has logged over 211 hours in space.
Anderson is assigned to the crew of STS-107 scheduled to launch in 2003. SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-89 (January 22-31, 1998), was the eighth
Shuttle-Mir docking mission during which the crew transferred more than 9,000
pounds of scientific equipment, logistical hardware and water from Space Shuttle
Endeavour to Mir. In the fifth and last exchange of a U.S. astronaut, STS-89
delivered Andy Thomas to Mir and returned with David Wolf. Mission duration was
8 days, 19 hours and 47 seconds, traveling 3.6 million miles in 138 orbits of
the Earth.

Rick Atkinson is an Army Brat. His father served 28 years in the
US Army officer corps.

Rick Atkinson won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1982 for
his series of articles on the West Point Class of 1966.
His books include: "The Long Gray Line, The American Journey
of West Point's Class of 1966" and "Crusade : The Untold Story
of the Persian Gulf War." Atkinson is currently a staff writer for the
Washington Post.

B

BARBARA
BABCOCK
FILM & TELEVISION ACTRESS

Barbara Babcock is reportedly a Military Brat and an Overseas School
Alumnus. She attended Yoyogi Elementary School at Washington Heights
in Japan from 1947 to 1949 as a 5th and 6th grader.

She is most noted for her acting in the television series "Hill Street
Blues" and many films.

BOB BARR
CONGRESSMAN, MEMBER OF THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM GEORGIA

Congressman Robert "Bob" Barr is an Army Brat and an overseas
brat, having graduated from the Community High School in Tehran, Iran in 1966.

COL. JOHN
BLAHA
SPACE SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT

Col. Blaha is a Military Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus. He was
a member of class of 1960 at Gen. H. H. Arnold High School in Wiesbaden,
Germany.

He has been a Space Shuttle Mission Commander and Shuttle Command Pilot.
Additionally, he has spent time on the Russian Space Station Mir.

SUSAN
BLAKELY
FILM & TELEVISION ACTRESS

Susan Blakely is a Army Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus. She
was born September 7, 1948 in Frankfurt, Germany. She attended Seoul American
High School in Korea where she was a member of the Class of 1966. She was
a SAHS cheerleader her sophomore year 1963-64.

Her credits include: roles in the "Savages" and "The Lords of Flatbush."
Her most memorable career projects were the mini-series "Rich Man, Poor
Man" and a CBS three hour mini-series entitled, "Will There Really Be a
Morning" which was a presentation of Frances Farmer's autobiography.

SARAH BIRD
AUTHOR

Sarah Bird is an Overseas School Alumnus and an Air Force Brat. Her
father was an Air Force Lt. Col. She attended school overseas at
Yokota in Japan.

She is best known for her books "The Virgin of the Rodeo," "Alamo House:
Women Without Men, Men Without Brains," The Boyfriend School and "The Mommie
Club."

NEAL BOORTZ
NATIONALLY SYNDICATED RADIO TALK
SHOW HOST

Neal Boortz is a Marine Corps Brat. His father was a Marine Corps
Pilot.

The Neal Boortz Show is also syndicated throughout the United States.
His Program airs daily from WSB-AM 750 in Atlanta, Georgia to an estimated
daily national audience of more than three million listeners.

Mr. Boortz was born in 1945 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Some of the
places he subsquently lived as a Marine Corps Brat included: Honolulu,
Hawaii, Laguna Beach, California, Morehead City, North Carolina; Virginia
Beach, Virginia, and Pensacola, Florida. He graduated from Pensacola High
School in 1963.

LeVar Burton is a military brat. He was born Levardis Robert Burton
in Landstuhl, West Germany on February 16, 1957.

He got his career started when he landed a role playing Kunta Kinte
in the television mini-series "Roots" in 1977. Burton is most
well known for his role as Gerodi LaForge in the television series: "Star
Trek: The Next Generation." He also produces and directs the
"Reading Rainbow" television series for the PBS.

C

Marcus
Calvin
Stage, Film, Television Actor

Stage, film, and television star, Marcus Calvin graduated from Frankfurt
American High School in 1983. After completing two years with the University of
Maryland (1985) in Munich, Germany, he won a full scholarship from the
government of Germany to attend the Otto-Faleckenberg-Schule for the Performing
Arts (1989). Marcus has over fifty films and TV appearances to his credit along
with the title character of the hit TV show “War Was Rickie”.

On the German stage Marcus has performed in more than seventy productions
among them the title roles in productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Twelth
Night, Macbeth, Angels in America, Dong Juan, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Tartuffe.
After being in Ensemble Companies in City, National and State Theatres in
Germany for twenty-two years, he is now a freelance actor working independently.
Living in Germany, Marcus is married and has three children

JULIA CAMPBELL
FILM & TELEVISION ACTRESS

Julia Campbell is an Army Brat and an Overseas Brat. She is the daughter
of a US Army Officer as per PARADE MAGAZINE 3-5-95. She lived in Turkey
during her junior high years.

James Carroll is an Army Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.
His father was an Army Lt. General. Carroll attended General HH Arnold
High School in Wiesbaden, Germany and was in the graduating class of 1960.

He's an acclaimed author of several novels and one biography, 'An American
Requiem - God, My Father and the War that Came Between Us'.

KELLYE
CASH
MISS AMERICA 1987

More information on Kellye Cash can be found on her Website, http://www.kellyecash.com/kellye.htm.
Her father, Capt. Roy Cash, Jr., USN (Ret), is a nephew of singer/songwriter
Johnny Cash.

COL.
JOHN H. CASPER, USA
SPACE SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT

Col. Casper was a Military Dependent. His father is a Retired
Col.

Info From: Col. J.H. Casper & NASA Astronaut Bios

EDDIE
CHEEVER
RACE CAR DRIVER-1998 INDY 500 WINNER

Eddie Cheever is an Overseas School Alumnus. He is a 1975 graduate of
the Notre Dame International School of Rome.

He was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but moved to Italy with his family,
where at the age of 13, he began his racing career at the Pista d'Oro track
in Rome. There he became interested in the speed of Formula 1 racing, and
by the age of 18, he was testing for Enzo Ferrari at the world famous Ferrari
Works.

Subsequently, Cheever became a driver in the Formula 1 circuit, participating
in races all over Europe. Cheever has had over 130 Formula 1 starts. He
has raced for teams like Alfa Romeo, Jaguar, and Renault.

In 1990, he moved with his wife and family back to the United States
and began competing in the Indy Racing League.

During his first year back in the US, Eddie Cheever not only qualified
for his first "500" race, but earned the honor of Indy's 1990 "Rookie of
the Year." In May of 1996, Cheever set the record for the fastest
lap ever recorded in "Indy 500" history, with a speed of 236.103 mph

In 1998 he won the Indy 500.

Lt. GENERAL
JAMES CLAPPER, JR.
USAF (Ret)

Lt. General Clapper is an Army Brat and an Overseas Brat. He graduated from Nurenburg AHS, Nurenburg, Germany, Class of 1959. He is also
a University of Maryland-Munich Alumnus.

General Clapper started his military career as an enlistee in the Marine
Corps. He then switched to the AF Officer's Candidate School and became a
career AF officer.

He was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1991-95 when he
retired from the Air Force. Following six years in private industry, in
2001 he became head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under
Homeland Security, a position he currently holds. (Updated Nov 2005)

GLENN CLOSE
FILM & TELEVISION ACTRESS

Glenn Close is an Overseas School Alumnus. She lived with her father
Dr William Close in Kinshasa Zaire for most of the 16 years he worked there.

Close has also stated that she hopes one day to film a movie about the
Ebola epidemics in Zaire.

The source for this information is the book "The Coming Plague" by Laurie
Garrett.

Glenn Close returned to the United States for high school and graduated
in 1965 from Rosemary Hall, in Greenwich, Connecticut.

HENRI COLE
1996 PRIX de ROME WINNER in POETRY

Henri Cole is a Military Brat. His books include: "The Visible
Man: Poems" and "Look of Things: Poems."

TOM COLE
U. S. REPRESENTATIVE (R-OK)

(1949-)

Representative Tom Cole is an Air Force Brat. Cole's late
father, John Cole, served twenty years in the United States Air Force and worked
an additional two decades as a civilian federal employee at Tinker Air Force
Base.

Cole is currently the only registered Native American from
the Chickasaw Nation serving in Congress.

JOHN CORNYN, III
SENATOR (R-Texas)

(1952-)

John Cornyn is an Air Force and Overseas Brat. He is a 1969
Graduate of Tokyo American High School.His
father, a B-17 pilot in World War II, later became a dentist and served for
thirty-one years in the U.S. Air Force and, later, taught at the University of
Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.

Senator Cornyn was elected to the US Senate in 2002, taking
over the Senate seat previously occupied by Army Brat Phil Graham (R-Texas).

General Donald G. Cook graduated from Paris American High School in 1965.

He is a graduate of Michigan State University. From 2001 to 2005 he was
Commander, Air Education and Traing Command at Randolph AFB, TX. General
Cook retired on August 1, 2005, and was recently appointed to the Board of
Directors of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. of Ft. Worth. (Updated
Nov 2005)

DEEDEE
CORRANDINI
FORMER MAYOR OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

Deedee Corradini is an Overseas School Alumnus who lived and attended
school in Lebanon and Syria for over 11 years.

Corrandi was elected the first female mayor of Salt Lake City in November
of 1991. She was re-elected in November 1995. She left office in January
of 2000.

She was also the President of the US Council of Mayors in 1998.

CAPTAIN
VIVIAN S. CREA
US COAST GUARD

Captain Crea is a Military Brat and an Overseas School Alumnus.
She graduated from Seoul American High School in Seoul, Korea in 1968.

Captain Crea is currently a 2 star Rear Admiral, First Coast Guard District and
Commander, Maritime Defense Command One.

Captain Crea holds a number of "Firsts" for women in the United States
Coast Guard. She is a USCG Commanding Officer, Leader, and Pilot. She is
the first Admiral in the US Coast Guard. Commissioned in 1973, Captain Crea was the first female aircraft commander
in the Coast Guard, and the first female Commanding Officer of a Coast
Guard Air Station. Captain Crea also served as Coast Guard Aide to the
President under President Reagan, and Executive Assistant to the Commandant
of the Coast Guard.